Arthur Geisert

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1970
  • Latest Book:
    May 2013
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Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • The Orange Scarf

  • Pa's Balloon and Other Pig Tales

  • The Ark

  • Pigs from 1 to 10

    In this unusual and entertaining counting book, ten pig siblings embark on new adventures. Ac-companying each adventure is an etching containing the numbers 0 to 9, as well as the ten piglets hidden within....

  • Oink Oink

  • After the Flood

    Full-color etchings, alternating between panoramic views and details, offer an original vision of events following the biblical Flood, moving from the landing of Noah's Ark to the flourishing of new communities....

  • Haystack

  • Oink

  • Pigs from A to Z



  • The Etcher's Studio

    A young boy helps his grandfather, an etcher, prepare for a year-end studio print sale. The boy's most important task is to color each etching by hand. His work is tedious, and his mind begins to wander into the world of art as he imagines himself wi...

  • Prairie Town

  • Roman Numerals I to MM

    With a farm of pigs as his abacus, Arthur Geisert uses elements of a search and count game to bring Roman numerals to life in this unintimidating math-concept book. First, the seven Roman numerals are equated with the correct number of piglets. Then ...

  • Prairie Summer

    Working hard on the family farm and helping her father whenever she can, ten-year-old Rachel, who despises farm life but does her fair share of the chores anyway, finds that no matter what she does, her father seems to think that she is worthless, in...

  • The Giant Ball of String

    Beyond the resourcefulness of its porcine citizens, there wasn’t much to recommend the small mining town of Rumpus Ridge. But even in such a hardscrabble place, they had created something they could be proud of: over the years they had collected th...

  • Mystery

    When a little piglet accompanies her grandpa to the museum on copying day, she soon discovers that something is amiss. Large sections of the museum’s paintings have been cut out and forgeries sewn in their place. Who would commit such a theft, and ...

  • Pigaroons

    When the thieving Pigaroons steal a block of ice the River Patrollers had intended to carve into a sculpture for their ice festival, the Patrollers decide that they've had enough and devise a plan to teach their Pigaroon neighbors a lesson....

  • Lights Out

    Mama and Papa are firm: lights out at eight o’clock. But their little piglet is afraid of the dark. They say, “If you can figure something out, go ahead.” So the piglet devises an ingenious series of contraptions that allow him to o...

  • Oops

    Oops! One morning, while a pig family was sitting down to breakfast, a little milk spills to the floor. That shouldn’t be any problem at all! And it wouldn’t, except that the milk seeps through a crack in the floor and drips down to the workshop ...

  • Nursery Crimes

    Jambo and Marva emigrated from France to Iowa and opened a small tree nursery.They and their piglets were skilled topiarists. Every autumn, they sculpted giant turkey topiaries, for which there was a big demand. One morning, Jambo awoke to discover a...



  • Hogwash

    It’s bath time! All the little piggies have had lots of fun playing, and now they’re dirty, muddy, and covered in paint. But their mamas aren’t worried -- they have just the machine to turn this Herculean task into an adventure. Anyone who has ...

  • Country Road ABC

    On today's farm, B is for barn cat...E is for erosion...G is for grinding feed, and I is for...inoculate? In 26 beautifully detailed spreads, acclaimed illustrator Arthur Geisert takes readers on a literal journey following a real road in Iowa (Coun...

  • Ice

    A gorgeously rendered wordless tale of discovery and adventure that is meticulous in architectural detail and bursts with inventiveness. Arthur Geisert's ingenuity engages the child's imagination as well as the adult's through seamless storytellin...

  • The Giant Seed

    In this follow up to the magnificently inventive Ice, Arthur Geisert once again charms us with his porcine world. This time his pigs must get creative when a volcano destroys their home. Fortunately they got busybefore trouble hit by planting a hu...

  • Thunderstorm

    Thunderstorm follows the course of a storm through midwestern farm country minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, from late morning into late afternoon. As always with Arthur Geisert, it is a meticulously executed and visually stunning piece of work. Oth...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Arthur Geisert has published 24 books.

Arthur Geisert does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Thunderstorm, was published in May 2013.

The first book by Arthur Geisert, The Orange Scarf, was published in January 1970.

No. Arthur Geisert does not write books in series.
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